Originally posted by MacAllcock:
If you are trying to make a midi file to play on a Yamaha XG system, but the keyboard you were using could not select its own XG-Lite voices using the control panel of the keyboard (and this seems to be the situation on the EXR3-5) then the midi file you create would not use XG-Lite voices and therefore would not use the XG voices on the Yamaha keyboard.
Bzzzzz! Wrong. :-) You can't make a XG-compatible MIDIfile on the EXR-5 using the built-in sequencer, but you can use the bankselect instructions according to XG-standard in for instance Cubase. The EXR-5 will playback such a file correctly, as if it were a Yamaha XG-device. Therefor you can make XG-files, using the EXR's capabilities to playback XG-files. That, and only that, is why Roland calls the EXR-5 "XG compatible".
Today I received an e-mail from Roland about this. They told me the "XG-voices" are in fact the normal Roland sounds, only assigned to program-change and bank-selects that follow the XG-standard.
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